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It is not yet possible to carry out historical demographic studies for Paleo-Babylonian Mesopotamia. But a few texts provide interesting data. We'll be looking at the composition of households and the role played by …

Abstract Virtually absent from official historiography, the memory of women is preserved in individual biographies, religious practices and folklore. The lecture analyzes the crumbs of history (up to the 10th  century) gathered from these different …

Abstract The debate on the role of stochasticity is central to evolutionary biology, often summarized by the question of whether evolution is predictable or repeatable. Yet this " repeatability " or parallel evolution has been used as " evidence " of …

Many phenomena involving living organisms have multifactorial causes. Evolution rarely takes the shortest route. Documents and media Download …

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Abstract The evolution of animal species, including humans, is punctuated by migrations over varying distances in response to environmental change. The analysis of ancient genomes has not only characterized these movements and the evolution of migrating …

This lecture will discuss how paleogenomic data have completely changed our view of the settlement of Europe. We'll see that Europe's current populations are the result of several interbreeding events, between the first Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, …

Abstract Spin squeezing is a well-established " quantum technology ", where well-chosen correlations in an ensemble of two-level systems reduce the statistical uncertainty of spectroscopic measurements. After an introduction outlining the issues at stake …

Abstract Hyperuniformity is the property of collections of random points for which the variance of the number of points in a large box is negligible compared to the volume of the box. This notion, introduced by S. Torquato (a theoretical chemist) in the …

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Abstract As in the rest of the world, including the West, the history of Việt Nam is no exception to a masculine writing of history, where women have been so few of its actors and authors. While the image of the female warrior runs through Vietnamese …

Abstract Among the wide and heterogeneous documentation on papyrus dealing with the explanation and interpretation of the Homeric poems, the glossaries represent the most widespread typology. This paper aims to illustrate the Homeric glossaries as textual …

The main temple at Aï Khanoum, a reopened debate. The Oxus temple at Takht-i Sangin, a long-standing debate. …

This conference is not available on video. Even today, the debate continues between advocates of national sovereignty and those of a deeper European Union. In this inaugural lecture, we will go back well beyond the birth of nation-states, to the …

The -phoros compounds are numerous in the Greek language and refer to the fact of " porter " or " apporter " something. In the context of cults, priestly titles or titles of servants on this theme are legion : bearers of branches, bearers of baskets, and …

Abstract This first lecture will describe the emergence of persistent data structures in two different historical contexts : on the one hand, the emergence of purely functional programming languages and their equational approaches to program derivation …

This first lecture takes us from the slopes of the Himalayas, between India and Nepal, to the Clivus Capitolinus that leads to the Capitol of ancient Rome in the 1st  century BC. Different times and places, but similar problems : horses and mules pulling …